I had a baby... so moving to weekly read lists for a while..
- Get the Epidural, NY Times
- Mothers Photographed With Their Day-Old Newborns, Slate
- How to Raise a Feminist Son, NY Times
- Why do we make children sleep alone?, LA Times
- The reason you answer work email on the weekend is actually 500 years old, Timeline
- The Stolen African Slave who became Queen Victoria’s God-daughter, Messy Nessy Chic
- Trump to Expand Funding Ban Tied to Abortion Overseas, NY Times
- My Family’s Slave, The Atlantic
- How Noncompete Clauses Keep Workers Locked In, NY Times
- Beth Hamedrash Hagadol Synagogue Destroyed by Fire on the Lower East Side, Untapped Cities
- Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable, NY Times
- Dakota Access pipeline has first leak before it's fully operational, The Guardian
- If Americans Can Find North Korea on a Map, They’re More Likely to Prefer Diplomacy, NY Times
- The Nostalgia of Estate Sales, New Republic
- Hear the Voices of Brooklyn’s Diverse Past Through a New Digitization Project, hyperallergic
- Pain in the Ass: a Birth Story, Wit & Delight
- The Mysterious Tree of a Newborn’s Life, NY Times
- Sessions orders return to tough drug war policies that trigger mandatory minimum sentences, LA Times
- What Becoming a Parent Taught Me About Design and Control, Design Sponge
- Dekalb is More Than an Avenue, Print Mag
- Garlic Mustard: Evil, Invasive, Delicious, NY Times
- How To Pick The Perfect Watermelon: 5 Key Tips From An Experienced Farmer!, Home Gardening Life
- Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them, NY Times
- Against Little Free Libraries, City Lab
- Ivanka Trump's Book Is an Insult to Real Women Who Work, Elle
- Donald Trump Tries to Explain Economics to The Economist. Hilarity Ensues., NY Mag
- Little Free Libraries®: Interrogating the impact of the branded book exchange [PDF], Radical Librarianship
- “There’s way worse videos”: Today’s students on Rodney King, the society pages
- The Surprising Challenges of Making Things Vegan, Atlas Obscura
- This Controversial Company Wants To Disrupt The Birth World, Buzzfeed
- Confessions of a Radical Doula, The Cut
- Growing Up in, and Outgrowing, Manhattan, NY Times
<3 the comments - Who Invented Gentrification? A Conversation With The Author Of 'The Invention Of Brownstone Brooklyn', Gothamist
- Swale, the Floating Food Forest on a Barge Opens at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Untapped Cities
- In Kansas City, One Stubborn Cave Won’t Give Up Its Secrets, Atlas Obscura
- The Austrian Immigrant Who Revolutionized Swedish Textiles, Eye on Design
- Saving China's abandoned Tulou homes, CNN
- Collected Stories from WWII Veterans Around the World, Lens Culture
- ‘The Ugly American’ was a scathing critique of our bad behavior abroad—and it became a best seller, Timeline
- The inventors of the Pill decided women should still bleed every month, Timeline
- ‘Black branding’ — how a D.C. neighborhood was marketed to white millennials, The Washington Post
- A Lesson in Following the Child -- Montessori Baby Week 22, the kavanaugh report
- In Trump’s America, Rape Is a Preexisting Condition, NY Mag
Sounds like being a woman is a preexisting condition. Plz try to avoid - House Voting on Health Bill: Will Republicans Be Able to Repeal Obamacare?, NY Times
- Who Wins and Who Loses in the Latest G.O.P. Health Care Bill, NY Times
- Under The New Health Care Bill, Rape Could Be A Pre-Existing Condition, Huffington Post
- Your 5-year-old is already racially biased. Here’s what you can do about it., Medium
- A New Look at the Little-Known Pyramids of Ancient Nubia, Atlas Obscura
- The Consequences of Amtrak Not Owning Its Own Tracks, Atlas Obscura
I remember learning a shorter version of why we were 12 hours late when my mom and I traveled from Ohio to NYC when I was 16.
- Brand to Know: The Kenyan Line That Makes Only One Dress, NY Times
- Parents: You Can’t Control Your Baby’s Digital Footprint, Slate
- What Those Baby Photos On Social Media Can Teach Us About Moms, NPR
- Does sharing photos of your children on Facebook put them at risk?, The Guardian
- Mysterious Moving Rocks in the Desert Stumped Scientists for 70 Years, Motherboard
- The Dirt: Clive Blazey, The Planthunter
- Teller Reveals His Secrets, Smithsonian
- Shared Destinies: Why Wealth Inequality Matters, Tor
- Makeup vloggers are protesting capitalism, The Outline
I never really understood haul videos anyways - Donald Trump’s Enduring Corruption of the Presidency, New Republic
- Donald Trump blames constitution for chaos of his first 100 days, The Guardian
- Ohio's Green Gold, the post athens
- #Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement, The New yorker
- The salacious murder of this New York City prostitute changed the American media landscape, Timeline
- The Importance of Montessori Practical Life for Toddlers, the kavanaugh report
- Montessori Puzzle Ball - Montessori Baby Week 21, the kavanaugh report
- Trump to review protections on vast nature preserves, Al Jazeera
- How the Internet Is Saving Culture, Not Killing It, NY Times
- How Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All , The Atlantic
- The Movie Date That Solidified J.R.R. Tolkien’s Dislike of Walt Disney, Atlas Obscura
- Oh, Just Harvesting Edible Mushrooms inside an Abandoned Water Park, Messy Nessy Chic
- There used to be salmon as big as golden retrievers in the Columbia River, but dams killed them off, timeline
- Rosie the Riveter is a bogus icon of female empowerment, Timeline
- The New York Public Library Has a “Digital Time-Travel Service” for Its Historical Maps, hyperallergic
- Why Is Iceland So in Love With Licorice?, Atlas Obscura
- How We Tummy Time -- Montessori Baby Week 20, the kavanaugh report
- How the 1960s and ’70s Counterculture Queered Fashion, hyperallergic
- The Complicated Legacy of Gertrude Bell, the Englishwoman Who Helped Colonize the Middle East, hyperallergic
this morning was crazy. 6th and 8th ave trains were shut down. eric drove me to work and we stopped to get dim sum.
- The Handmaid’s Tale Is a Warning to Conservative Women, The New Republic
- A ‘Members Only’ Public Space in Manhattan? Join the Club, NY Times
- These New Yorkers Are Covering Advertisements with Art, The Nation
- The Random Quarter That Landed Life Magazine in Court for Indecency, Jezebel
- Why do some NYC landlords leave apartments empty?, brick underground
- The Enemy is Us: The Opioid Crisis and the Failure of Politics, Dissent
- Why tax day is a nightmare for freelancers, LA Times
Just paid taxes. Yuck - How to Deal with the Coming L-pocalypse? One Idea is to Ban Cars from 14th Street, City Limits
- Why Did These Lions Eat So Many People?, Gizomodo
- Watch: The Tattoo Artist Changing Women's Lives By Inking Their Breasts, Refinery29
- The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black, The Stranger
- One of Canada’s Biggest Tourist Attractions Was a Set of Quintuplets, Messy Nessy Chic
- Silicon Valley’s $400 Juicer May Be Feeling the Squeeze, Bloomberg
- Songs We Love: Cende, 'What I Want', NPR
Little Dave's band - How America got fleeced by TurboTax, This Week
- How to Raise a Creative Child. Step One: Back Off, NY Times
- India Mahdavi Blends Hollywood and Paris With a Modern Beverly Hills Café, Architectural Digest
- On the Trail of New York's Greatest Trees, City Lab